Thursday, November 5, 2009

Beer with extra buzz on tap up to 16%

A growing number of states are moving to allow higher alcohol content in beer, despite concerns from some substance-abuse experts.Alabama and West Virginia have passed laws increasing the legal alcohol-by-volume cap for beer from 6% to as high as 13.9% this year. Similar efforts are underway in Iowa and Mississippi, two states with very restrictive limits on the sale of high-alcohol beer, said Sean Wilson, former president of Pop the Cap, North Carolina's successful grass-roots effort that raised the state's limit in 2005.